the literacy crisis isn't that people can't read the words, it is that they cannot understand the context, infer meaning, or make logical conclusions from what they have read...
i love how humans have this beautiful habit of assigning meaning to ordinary things. lucky pennies. wishing on stars. birthday candles. somehow that feels less like superstition and more like hope
They say books won’t change the world. Tell that to every colonizer who burned them. To every enslaved person who was punished for reading. Literacy is resistance. Literacy is liberation. The library is a battlefield.